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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Trash, Delete, Shred
From:       David Hugh-Jones <hughjonesd () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-06-28 11:43:56
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Hmm. I think we are approaching the point at which, in Havoc
Pennington's phrase, the UI begins to resemble a programming language.

It sounds like your underlying problem is needing space. Now for that,
what we want is for the trash to offer to delete files as soon as it
hits a certain quota. I guess for that we need to be able to attach
behaviors to the trash itself - is that possible? A kludge solution
would be to check every time the Konqueror's "trash" action is called.
That obviously doesn't deal with files that get into the trash in some
other way... but too bad.

(On a similar note, we probably want the "delete" in the file open
dialog to respect the same settings as Konqueror... I haven't looked
into this.)

Dave


On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 11:42, Max Howell wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> reading your arguments I realise the only reason I would normally delete a 
> large file is to redeem the space. And even if this wasn't the motivation I 
> wouldn't want the file to go in my trash (as I backup up my home daily, but 
> still it's a huge file!)
> 
> So perhaps :
> 
> (o) Move all files to trash
> ( ) delete large files, rest to trash
>       [ ] Ask for delete confirmation for large files
> ( ) Delete all files 
> 
> [ ] Ask for confirmation for all deletes
> 
> thus remote files go to trash if they are small, I suggest that this is 
> intelligently decided. I'd consider 2MB to be a large remote file and 100MB 
> to be a large local file. I'd hesitate to make this configurable but I expect 
> it will be demanded. Thoughts?
> 
> Max
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